Genesis 21:14
Good News Translation
Early the next morning Abraham gave Hagar some food and a leather bag full of water. He put the child on her back and sent her away. She left and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

New Revised Standard Version
So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

Contemporary English Version
Early the next morning Abraham gave Hagar an animal skin full of water and some bread. Then he put the boy on her shoulder and sent them away. They wandered around in the desert near Beersheba,

New American Bible
Early the next morning Abraham got some bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. Then, placing the child on her back, he sent her away. As she roamed aimlessly in the wilderness of Beer-sheba,

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

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So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

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2112. B.C.

1892. rose up.

Genesis 19:27 And Abraham got up early in the morning, and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord:

Genesis 22:3 So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.

Genesis 24:54 And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master.

Genesis 26:31 Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.

Psalm 119:60 I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy commandments.

Proverbs 27:14 He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

took.

Genesis 25:6 And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and separated them from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east country.

Genesis 36:6,7 And Esau took his wives, and his sons and daughters, and every soul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he was able to acquire in the land of Chanaan: and went into another country, and departed from his brother Jacob. . . .

child.

Genesis 21:12 And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

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Genesis 21:20 And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man, an archer.

,) as Ishmael was now

Genesis 21:16 And she went her way, and sat over against him a great way off, as far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept.

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17 years of age.

sent.

John 8:35 Now the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the son abideth for ever.

wandered.

Genesis 16:7 And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,

Genesis 37:15 And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.

Psalm 107:4 They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.

Isaiah 16:8 For the suburbs of Hesebon are desolate, and the lords of the nations have destroyed the vineyard of Sabama: the branches thereof have reached even to Jazer: they have wandered in the wilderness, the branches thereof are left, they are gone over the sea.

Galatians 4:23-25 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman was by promise. . . .

Beer-sheba.

Genesis 21:31 Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.

. Such instances of the figure prolepsis are not infrequent in the Pentateuch.

Genesis 21:33 And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.

Genesis 22:19 Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.

Genesis 26:33 Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

Genesis 46:1 And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,

1 Kings 19:3 Then EIias was afraid, and rising up, he went whithersoever he had a mind: and he came to Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant there,

Context
Sarah Turns Against Hagar
13But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed. 14So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.15And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.…
Cross References
Genesis 21:13
But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.

Genesis 21:15
And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.

Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.

Genesis 25:6
And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and separated them from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east country.

Proverbs 27:8
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.

Genesis 21:13
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